Money20/20 Middle East 2027 · Riyadh
Banks, payment firms and fintech founders bring their products to Money20/20 Middle East, where SAMA and the Capital Market Authority are among the hosts. Lazulite fabricates their stands in Dubai, trucks them to Riyadh and fits touch tables, kiosks and LED pieces from its own catalogue. Our crews have worked both editions held so far. The third edition opens in Malham on 14 September 2027, and a Lazulite engineer stays on each stand we build.
Show facts
Money20/20 Middle East is an annual Riyadh fintech show, first held in 2025 and organised by Tahaluf with Fintech Saudi.
Show details checked: 9 November 2026
Money20/20 Middle East is hosted by the Financial Sector Development Program, a Vision 2030 programme, with SAMA, the Capital Market Authority and the Insurance Authority. At the 2026 edition, SAMA's Governor announced that Saudi Arabia had 371 fintech companies by August. The National Fintech Strategy aims for 525 active firms by 2030.
Seven stages carried the 2026 programme, among them the Executive Summit, NextGen Money, The Capital Stage and MoneyPot, with the Main Stage in Hall 2. Startups and scaleups get dedicated spaces and programmes, including RiseUp and MoneySurge pitching sessions.
The organiser counted more than 1,050 investors at the 2025 launch, among 38,500-plus attendees and 451 exhibiting brands. Bank buyers, insurers, asset managers and regulators share those aisles, so one stand may host a pitch and a compliance question within an hour.
Money20/20 Middle East 2027 runs from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 September, the organiser's homepage confirms. Each edition so far has filled three mid-September days: 15 to 17 September 2025, then 14 to 16 September 2026.
The 2027 edition stays in Malham, at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center that hosted both earlier editions.
Space is booked first, through the 2027 Exhibitor and Sponsor enquiry form on the organiser's site. Tahaluf has posted no public exhibitor manual, so drawing, contractor and service order dates reach exhibitors after booking. Forward it to Lazulite on arrival.
Planning timeline
Ten weeks before 14 September
Custom brief naming every product and licence you will present
Eight weeks out
Concept, indicative cost and drawings ready for the organiser's review
Five weeks out
Final brief date for a modular stand bound for Malham
Three weeks out
Freight leaves Dubai with Saudi customs papers complete
Build-up days
Offline app copies loaded and every screen tested in the hall
Every Money20/20 Middle East stand Lazulite builds is fabricated in our Dubai Production City workshop and crosses into Saudi Arabia by road in finished sections. Custom joinery suits a bank or payment firm that needs closed meeting rooms.
A payment or a credit decision has no physical form, so the stand has to give it one. A Rotating Triangle can turn through three stages of a transaction. On a Tangible Table, a visitor sets down a token and sees which account data a consent screen releases.
Visitors at Money20/20 Middle East include investors, bank buyers and regulators, and each needs a different follow-up. Event Registration & Badging Systems scan badges at your stand and tag each contact by role. Investors flagged for meetings go straight to your founders.
Show times on the organiser's FAQ page run from 11am to 7pm, Saudi time. A Lazulite engineer arrives before the doors open, restarts each kiosk and LED piece and stays until the close on day three.
SAMA has licensed open banking providers since March 2026, with requirements on consent management and data security. Set a bank token down on the Tangible Table, and the screen lists which account data the customer agreed to share, and for how long.
Cross-border payouts were among the 2026 announcements in Riyadh. A Dynamic LED Table can follow one transfer from a Saudi account to a receiving wallet abroad, marking each fraud detection check on the route.
The 2025 edition logged 2,288 pre-scheduled investor and startup meetings, the organiser said. Give those slots a closed room with an indoor LED video wall for the deck and a check-in point on Event Registration & Badging Systems.
Startups pitched in MoneySurge sessions in 2026, then met investors on the floor afterwards. An Interactive Kiosk running the pitch deck and product screens lets a founder repeat the story for each visitor without opening a laptop.
Tahaluf sets the Money20/20 Middle East design approval process in its exhibitor manual, which reaches booked exhibitors directly. Our drawings mark meeting room walls, screen weights and every network point against the Malham hall plan.
Contractor registration and build-up passes follow the process in that manual. Lazulite registers each crew member under it and arranges Saudi entry papers for the Dubai crew.
Fintech stands lean on the network as much as on power, because each product screen calls an API. Lazulite drafts your electrical load, hanging points and data lines, then files each service request on your behalf by the method Tahaluf's manual sets out.
Your brief lists each product, its licence status and the visitors you want, and we read it against your stand number on the Malham plan.
Drawings, renders and the materials list go to Tahaluf through the route its manual sets, with our designers answering every reviewer query.
Every app runs on staged accounts and sample data in our Dubai workshop, so no real customer record travels to Riyadh.
Crews join the finished sections at Malham during build-up, then an engineer looks after the stand across all three show days.
After the final close, the stand comes down, reusable modules head back to Dubai storage and your tagged contacts reach your team.
Closed meeting rooms are the biggest cost line on a Money20/20 Middle East stand, since investor and regulator meetings need walls, doors and acoustic panels. Fintech stands at Malham typically price custom work around AED 1,500 to 3,500 and modular work around AED 1,000 to 2,000, both per square metre.
Tahaluf sells space through its Exhibitor and Sponsor enquiry and invoices it on its own. Our figure includes design, joinery, screens, content and the engineers on site. We calculate power, rigging and internet and place those orders on your behalf. Riyadh quotes tend to sit higher in each band, as freight, customs and crew travel add cost. Saudi VAT is 15%.
A modular frame built for September can return to Malham for Black Hat MEA or LEAP with fresh graphics. Fintech exhibitors hiring an indoor LED video wall should budget a typical AED 300 to 650 each show day for every square metre of screen.
Budget bands
Compact
Near 12 square metres for a startup or scaleup, with AED 30,000 to 70,000 as the typical range
Standard
Near 36 square metres for a payment firm, where AED 80,000 to 200,000 is a typical spend
Flagship
A bank or sponsor island near 100 square metres, usually landing between AED 300,000 to 650,000
Ranges checked: November 2026
Pricing note: These ranges are indicative, for planning only. Your final quote depends on your requirements, stand size, show duration and the resources your stand needs. They exclude organiser space, venue charges for power, rigging and internet, and VAT.
Rent vs custom
Rent
Hired kiosks and LED pieces on a modular frame for first-time exhibitors
Custom build
Joinery for banks and payment firms that host closed meetings
Every Money20/20 Middle East stand we build crosses the Saudi border by road. Freight slots, customs papers and crew travel therefore enter the plan in the first week.
SAMA's Governor announced the Kingdom's fintech count at the 2026 show, so every figure on our screens carries your compliance team's written approval.
Tahaluf runs LEAP, Black Hat MEA and Money20/20 Middle East at the same Malham venue. Our crews know its loading bays, hall plan and build-up routine from those projects.
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No. The 2025 launch had 451 exhibiting brands, the organiser reports, beside more than 450 speakers. Banks, payment firms, insurers and startups all take stands, and the 2026 edition planned for 350 brands. Exhibition space is booked through Tahaluf's Exhibitor and Sponsor enquiry, apart from delegate passes.
Let's build it together
List the products and licences you plan to present at Money20/20 Middle East 2027; they decide the meeting rooms, screens and network points. Send that list with your stand number, and we reply with a first concept and a cost range. After you approve the design, that range becomes a fixed quote. Call +971 50 173 8408 once Tahaluf confirms your space.
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